The Effect of Story Completion Technique Assisted By Wayang Art Media Toward Students’ Speaking Ability For Second Grade Junior High School

Abstract

This study deals with The Effect of Story Completion Technique assisted by Wayang art Media toward Students‟ Speaking Ability For Second Grade Junior High School.The objectives of this research were to find out the effect Story Completion Technique assisted by Wayang art Media toward Students‟ Speaking Ability For Second Grade Junior High School and to find out the students‟ difficulties in speaking. The population of this research was the Second Grade grade students of SMPAsuhan Jaya Medan, with the total population were 75 students. And 50 students were taken as the sample. Cluster random sampling technique was applied in taking the sample. The total sample consisted of 50 students and the sample was divided into two group, the experimental group and control group. The instrument for collecting data in this research was oral test, pre-test and post-test were given to the both group, experimental and control group. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The finding showed that the students taught by Story Completion Technique Toward Students Speaking Ability For Second Grade Junior High School got the higher score than those taught by Discussion method. The result showed that tobserved (16.02) was higher than ttable (2.01), at a = 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 48. It meant that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion, the students‟ achievement in speaking by using Story Completion Technique was more significant than using Discussion method. The students‟ difficulties in speaking English was grammar. It was one of indicators of speaking that got the lowest score where the total score of vocabulary was 306, comprehension was 287, pronunciation was 306, fluency was 291 and grammar was 264. It was because they less practice in tenses, so they got difficulties in speaking English.